Making the 4 Day Week Work 1 Day Workshop

Course Overview

Key Outcomes

By the end of this one-day workshop on Making the 4 Day Week Work, you will:

• Be able to sell the four-day week to colleagues
• Understand the logistics of how the four day week works
• Discover how to become as productive in 4 days as you were in 5
• Develop an Action Plan for your organisation.

The Programme

The benefits

What are the benefits of a Four Day Week, and how can you sell it to your colleagues?

• Selling the idea: the benefits that others have found
• How it works across different sectors
• Get more done in less time and see the benefit in your people’s well-being

The logistics

The Four Day Week is based on 32 hours. However this can take many different forms:

• Involve your people at the beginning, give them the ability to make the decisions
• Fixed day off or flexible working? Holidays and bank holidays
• What happens to part-time workers?
• Be aware of the challenges, not everybody may want it
• Making the Four Day Week bottom-up, not top-down.
• Dos and Don’ts, Surveys, newsletters, Yammer/Slack.

Productivity Blitz

How do you become as productive in four days (or 32 hours) as you were in five?

• Focus: Avoid distractions and focus on “deep work”
• Meetings: Reduce or shorten your meetings
• Email: Create a culture that avoids email overload

Our standard Five Day Productivity Blitz involves 15 mins each morning, 15 mins each afternoon for a full week. We recommend your people do this learning before they start the four-day week.

Action Plan: Getting the Four Day Week to work for you

What are your next steps?

• Self-evaluate your current thinking, actions and behaviours
• Reflect on a questions to enable you to take action and decide which next steps to prioritise
• Decide on practical actions to make a four-day week possible for your organisation

Our approach to programme delivery

Every programme is designed to ensure complete individual involvement and participation, it will stimulate your thinking and challenge you. Our key focus is on practical skills and real outcomes throughout. The content will involve an innovative and engaging blend of activities so that you can directly apply it to your organisation's current performance and future success.

You should reserve out the whole day in your diary for the learning. This will allow you to join the interactive workshops and have time to reflect and do the assignments in between. We believe immersing yourself in the content for a whole day will create deep learning and lasting impact.

Related courses

• Five Day Productivity Blitz — Do you feel that you are terribly busy, but not as productive as you'd like to be? Learn a new technique each morning in a 15 minute session, try it out, and report back in the afternoon how it went. We recommend your people take this workshop before starting the Four Day Week.
• How to Manage Your Email Inbox (half-day) — This half-day course will give you a radical new approach to your emails that will help you to free up time for the big things you want to achieve.
• Effective Coaching Skills for Leaders — Enhance your ability to coach those around you to become more motivated and to find their own solutions in this one-day workshop.

If you need help beyond this programme fulfilling your personal action plan, then we also offer 1-to-1 Executive Coaching which can provide you with an insightful and structured space to discover and develop yourself further in order to achieve even more positive results.